209 Quotes About Magical-realism

Coincidence leads to talk and talk to speculation and speculation to rumor and rumor to belief. And belief makes the supernatural real.

Satisfaction isn’t always happiness by a long sight. Then again, it isn’t sorrow either. But the rocks and the spruces and the fogs of your own land are things that nourish you. You can always have them. No matter what else you find, or what else you lose.

The trouble with magical realism for me, as I suggested earlier, is that it is neither realistic nor magical.

We believe the lies about the true meaning of life because these lies are familiar and hence comfortable. Yet, when we let divine truth guide us, it might be uncomfortable in the beginning, but this truth will ultimately set us free.

The hillside was thick with trees, the same hill we had left barren the day before.

Once upon a time, a long, long, long time ago, atoms begat chemical reactions begat molecules begat life. Life responds to stimuli, but it took another 3 billion years before living beings begat the concept of cause and effect. After another 300 million years, cause begat blame. Blame dissociated consequences from action, relieving believers of personal responsibility, and thus blamers begat blamees. Gods.

If it hadn't been for my little brother Bo and me chasing fireflies, I would've never discovered the bones up on Solace Hill.

First love, first love,” Sean murmured sadly, scratching his bubonic nose. “Who are we to intervene, eh? It will die of natural causes.”“Natural causes!”She was thinking that the poor girl had been garroted. Her bright-red hair racing the tail of the noose down her spine. You could not survive your death, could you? It survived with you.

If David Luís had known what the future had in store for his son, he would've named him anything else—anything.